Cambridge University Press

This edition of our successful series to support the Cambridge IGCSE Biology syllabus (0610) is fully updated for the revised syllabus for first examination from 2016. Written by an experienced teacher and examiner, Cambridge IGCSE Biology Coursebook with CD-ROM gives comprehensive and accessible coverage of the syllabus content. Suggestions for practical activities are included, designed to help develop the required experimental skills, with full guidance included on the CD-ROM. Study tips throughout the text, exam-style questions at the end of each chapter and a host of revision and practice material on the CD-ROM are designed to help students prepare for their examinations. Answers to the exam-style questions in the Coursebook are provided on the CD-ROM.

This edition of our successful series to support the Cambridge IGCSE Chemistry syllabus (0620) is fully updated for the revised syllabus from first examination from 2016. Written by a team with teaching and examining experience, Cambridge IGCSE Chemistry Coursebook with CD-ROM gives comprehensive and accessible coverage of the syllabus. Suggestions for practical activities are included, designed to help develop the required experimental skills, with full guidance included on the CD-ROM. Study tips throughout the text, exam-style questions at the end of each chapter and a host of revision and practice material on the CD-ROM are designed to help students prepare for their examinations. Answers to the exam-style questions in the Coursebook are provided on the CD-ROM.

Interchange Fourth Edition is a four-level series for adult and young-adult learners of English from the beginning to the high-intermediate level. Workbook A, Intro has six-page units that follow the same sequence as Student's Book A, Intro. The workbook helps recycle and review language by providing additional practice in grammar, vocabulary, reading, and writing. It contains units 1-8 and is appropriate for in-class work or assigned as homework.

An engaging, advanced-level introduction to the emerging field of discourse studies of identity, with particular reference to academic contexts. Disciplinary Identities uses findings from corpus research to present fascinating insights into the relationship between author identity and disciplinarity in academic writing. Ken Hyland draws on a number of sources to explore how authors convey aspects of their identities within the constraints placed upon them by their disciplines' rhetorical conventions. He promotes corpus methods as important tools in identity research, demonstrating the effectiveness of keyword and collocation analysis in highlighting both the norms of a particular genre and an author's idiosyncratic choices. Also available separately as a paperback.

Ventures 2nd Edition is a six-level, standards-based ESL series for adult-education ESL. The Ventures 2nd Edition interleaved Level 3 Teacher's Edition includes easy-to-follow lesson plans for every unit. It offers tips and suggestions for addressing common areas of difficulty for students, as well as suggested expansion activities for improving learner persistence. The Teacher's Edition also explains where to find additional practice in other Ventures components such as the Workbook, Online Teacher's Resource Room, and Student Arcade. Multi-skill unit, midterm, and final tests are found in the back of the Teacher's Edition. Also includes an Assessment CD/CD-ROM which contains audio for each test as well as all the tests in a customizable format.

Clear Speech, the world's favorite pronunciation series, helps students master the most important features of spoken English. The Clear Speech From the Start, Second Edition, Student's Book provides easy-to-follow presentations, helpful rules, and extensive practice in pronunciation. This revised edition offers new and updated content, additional visual support, and is now in full color. The full Student's Book audio program is available for download at.

Activate Your English focuses clearly on communication skills and learning strategies.

Activate Your English focuses clearly on communication skills and learning strategies.

Activate Your English focuses clearly on communication skills and learning strategies.

Activate Your English focuses clearly on communication skills and learning strategies.

Activate Your English focuses clearly on communication skills and learning strategies.

This is a cassette of a highly successful and widely-used text on pronunciation. It provides a systematic and thorough introduction to the pronunciation of English to help intermediate and more advanced students improve their pronunciation of the spoken language. A recording of all the practice material in the book is available on the cassettes.

Containing four complete past papers for the Proficiency examination, this title provides the most authentic exam preparation available. The 'with answers' editions contain keys and tapescripts making it suitable for self-study. It is also available packaged together with two audio CDs in a self-study pack.

Cambridge First Certificate Grammar and Usage New Edition provides thorough, communicative language work for general English students and candidates preparing for Paper 3 of the Cambridge First Certificate examination. Each unit contains innovative activities centred around one main language area. Students draw useful information from the grammar reference sections, practise with a wide range of exercise types and apply this knowledge to the exam-specific tasks which appear in the fully updated exam focus sections at the end of each unit. They are guided throughout the book by clear explanations and helpful illustrated hints. Cambridge First Certificate Grammar and Usage adopts a task-based approach to encourage students to formulate grammar rules for themselves, while introducing them to different grammar learning strategies.

The Cambridge Picture Dictionary is an exciting interactive approach to vocabulary building for young learners. It comprises a full colour picture dictionary with activities and a project book with additional tasks and activities. Specifically designed to engage and motivate young learners and to make English fun, its special features include: twenty-six core topics, presented in alphabetical order, chosen for their high interest value, vocabulary chosen for its immediate relevance to young learners and presented in situational contexts for clarity, fun tasks and projects which actively involve the young learners in personalizing their dictionary, exercises to develop the dictionary skills of word-finding, alphabetical ordering and vocabulary defining, motivating 'Challenge' activities, star rated 1 to 3 for level.

Communicative Syllabus Design provides a model for specifying the syllabus content relevant to the needs of different types or groups of foreign-language learner. Clear examples are given at every stage of the explanation with two detailed studies of how the model works in practice. It should be invaluable to anyone writing ESP courses. Teachers who are involved in planning general courses should also find it relevant and informative since the criteria for analysing communicative needs can easily be adapted for their purposes.

In order to read effectively in English, advanced learners need to develop a range of skills. Effective Reading provides a wide variety of interesting, up-to-date reading material with challenging and motivating exercises which develop the relevant skills. All the texts are authentic and come from many different sources including contemporary British and American novels, newspapers, magazines and advertising. Each unit contains one or two reading passages, four or five skills exercises, and suggestions for further work. The Teacher’s Book gives useful background information on the texts, answers to exercises and more ideas for follow-up work.

In order to read effectively in English, advanced learners need to develop a range of skills. Effective Reading provides a wide variety of interesting, up-to-date reading material with challenging and motivating exercises which develop the relevant skills. All the texts are authentic and come from many different sources including contemporary British and American novels, newspapers, magazines and advertising. Each unit contains one or two reading passages, four or five skills exercises, and suggestions for further work. The Teacher's Book gives useful background information on the texts, answers to exercises and more ideas for follow-up work.

Elementary Task Listening is for elementary and lower-intermediate students who need to understand English as it is spoken both in the UK and in a wider international context. The approach is similar to that of Task Listening. The twenty-one units contain: • Short recordings of authentic speech in simulated situations • A variety of accents, both native-speaker and foreign • Simple tasks with clear illustrations, which encourage students to sift out the essential information from what they hear • Thematically linked reading and writing exercises • Topics related to the real-life needs and interests of students and, by extension, to the topics covered by most beginners' courses (e.g. shopping, travelling etc.).

Elementary Task Listening is for elementary and lower-intermediate students who need to understand English as it is spoken both in the UK and in a wider international context. The approach is similar to that of Task Listening. The twenty-one units contain: • Short recordings of authentic speech in simulated situations • A variety of accents, both native-speaker and foreign • Simple tasks with clear illustrations, which encourage students to sift out the essential information from what they hear • Thematically linked reading and writing exercises • Topics related to the real-life needs and interests of students and, by extension, to the topics covered by most beginners' courses (e.g. shopping, travelling etc.).

This very popular pronunciation practice book is for intermediate and more advanced students of English who wish to improve their pronunciation and listening comprehension. The material can be used in class or by learners studying individually, using the cassette recordings. The practice material is illustrated by amusing cartoons throughout the book.

Communication activities for the classroom. In the Student's Book, students learn how to do things with English — how to persuade a friend, how to apologize, how to complain, and so on. After each function is presented, students learn to understand a variety of ways to express it and then some ways to perform it themselves. There are teacher-controlled exercises, as well as pair and small group work involving role plays, problem solving tasks, and discussions. The communication activities are particularly useful in developing conversational skills and fluency. Writing skills are also practiced in each unit.

Communication activities for the classroom. The Teacher's Manual has extensive suggestions for using the materials in the Student's Book in the classroom, including notes on the characters, situations, and topic (s) for the conversations in each unit.

This is a resource book for teachers containing material for a wide variety of games which can be played in the English language classroom. Each game focuses on one or more points of English grammar. A specification is given for each game, describing its level, materials needed, grammar points practised and time required. Grammar Games enables teachers to integrate grammar practice into their classes in novel and motivating ways.